Way back before celebrity baby bumps and the Brangelina brood, before BronxMowgli and BlueIvy, we put together the first-ever collection of celebrity baby names in our 1988 book Beyond Jennifer & Jason. These “starbaby” names had the power to launch trends and inspire namesakes, we theorized, and we’d be hearing them far into the future.

The future has arrived, and those original celebrity babies have grown up and made names for themselves. Here, a look at some of the starbabies whose names were included in our original lists and what they’re doing now.

Today being the first day of the merry month of May, why not consider a name that starts with that upbeat, springlike syllable for your baby born this month? Here are the most likely May names suspects.

MABEL–When BruceWillis, who, with then-wife DemiMoore, was one of the original creative baby namers with older daughters Rumer, Scout and Tallulah, recently named his baby girl MabelRay, he brought this vintage Victorian charmer further into the modern world orbit. It had already been used by ChadLowe, NenahCherry and Dermot Mulroney, as well as for the sitcom baby on Mad About You. Mabel—originally a short form of Amabel—could well join other ascending sassy showgirl names like Ruby and Sadie. Maybelleis rarely heard outside Nashville.

MACY—Macy entered the popularity list in 1990—almost a decade after it had been noticed on the soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful—and has been well used ever since, a much more modern sounding replacement for the dated Tracy and Stacy, and more solid than the lacy Lacey. Apart from the department store chain, the most noted bearer of the name, singer MacyGray, was born Natalie McIntyre; Carmela Soprano/Nurse JackieEdie Falco named her daughter Macy.